Any "Heads Up" would be appreciated

First, I should apologize if this is off topic or newbie type questions. I\'ve only had CPanel a couple weeks and I AM NOT a Unix Admin. :D I do have access to an Admin who\'s very good but very old school and not into control panels at all!

When I ordered CPanel/WHM it was to go onto a production server and we all know that a clean box is required so my provider let me have two boxes and I have been moving the sites over a few at a time.

This process is completed and I\'m letting everything run for a few days to be sure it\'s good to go. My nameservers and the secure server is still residing on the temp. box. I am shooting for Tuesday to move them.

I wondered if anyone is aware of things I should know about or ways to make this smooth and painless. I know my admin will want to drop these in from the command line but I don\'t know if WHM will just pick them up and run with it or what.

Also, in the WHM Setup I have a generic Hostname that I would like to change. Under that setting it says \"This is the current hostname of this server. (The value of this attribute cannot be modified).\" Is this a hardline? I can\'t think of any reason this can\'t be modified but I\'m an idiot regarding this issue.

That\'s it for now but I\'m sure question will come up from your replies and I\'ll think of something else. Please bear with my ignorance.

One excellent thread that will introduce to all (or most) of the vital configuration places/files on your CPanel box, as well as some tips on \"moving people\" is this one:

http://support.cpanel.net/new/viewthread.php?tid=2 .....

You probably are coming from an environment that has a completely different controlpanel or none at all, but that thread will help introduce many of the vitals of the cpanel services so you can compare them to the previous machines and get things in sync as best as possible.

Changing the hostname on a cpanel box that has an active license will cause your box to go out of sync w/ the cpanel licensing server ... though this can be corrected as long as your BASE IP doesn\'t change. If you find you are getting an invalid license after you do this, go into /usr/local/cpanel and remove the \"cpanel\" base program (NOTHING MORE)... it\'s a small file... and then run /scripts/upcp, and finally go back into /usr/local/cpanel and run ./cpkeyctl , you should be golden AGAIN IF YOUR BASE IP DIDN\'T CHANGE.

Hi Travis,
Thanks for the tip ... I notice that the thread seems to apply mainly to cpanel to cpanel move.

You are correct this is going from a Slackware/Webmin machine to a CPanel/WHM set up.

All the sites are on the new machine and I\'m still running the DNS, nameservers, a secure server and the \"main\" .com domain associated with those on the old box. To clarify www.mydomain.com, ns.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com and secure.mydomain.com are all on the temp machine, everything else has been moved and working fine with new IP\'s

Of course I can assign new IP\'s and transfer www & secure ... no biggie. But, that isn\'t an option for ns & ns2. The more I think about it I think it might just be easier to face a bit of downtime and bring it down on the temp box then install it on the CPanel machine.

Actually the hostname I want to change to is the mydomain.com so that seems it would fall right in as I\'ll be keeping the assigned base IP.

Yep, the more I think about it the more I think that\'ll be the way to go.